Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

Listen to 'The Voice', not the choice

Be you, love you. All ways, always.

Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.

I’m going with Darrelle Revis.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!